You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.Richard Koch

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The biggest failure is the failure to try.

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.Ref.: Sardar, Z. and I. Abrams, Introducing chaos. 2004: Icon Books, p.71.

New ideas don’t win really. What happens is that the old scientists die and new ones come along with new ideas.Max Planck

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why.From Internet

New power is the development of mass participation and peer coordination to create change and shift outcomes.Jeremy Heimans (at his TED talk)

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.H. L. Mencken

Naive Researcher: I should slice my research to publish more papers.Professor: We need to publish a strong and comprehensive paper, so that
it gets cited.Experienced Distinguished Professor: We should make sure what we publish
is correct, because then it is going to last for ages.Bahman Nasseroleslami